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Exploring agrivoltaics: Opportunities, trade-offs and potential solutions – int...
Filipe, Susana; Fialho, Luis; Stange, Maximilian; Sequeira, Miguel; Oliveira, Flavio; Ascensão, FernandoAchieving carbon neutrality relies on renewable energy infrastructures like hy-drological dams, photovoltaic arrays, and wind parks, often in agriculturally uti-lized areas. Despite their crucial role in achieving carbon neutrality while main-taining socio-economic growth, these infrastructures necessitate careful consid-eration of their impacts on land systems to achieve net emissions savings. Under-standing t...
A framework for large-scale risk assessment of road-related impacts, with appli...
Ascensão, Fernando; Barrientos, Rafael; D’Amico, MarcelloRoads, while crucial for human development and economic growth, pose significant threats to biodiversity. Large-scale road risk assessments are essential for guiding infrastructure planning, particularly in identifying areas to avoid new construction or prioritizing regions for mitigation where road networks are already established. However, conducting comprehensive assessments is challenging in regions with li...
A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during ...
Challéat, Samuel; Farrugia, Nicolas; Froidevaux, Jérémy S. P.; Gasc, Amandine; Pajusco, Nicolas; Abrahams, Carlos R.; Acevedo-Charry, OrlandoPolitical responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought together by the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acoustic changes in urban areas. We present this collection here, along with metadata including observational descriptions o...
Predicting the climatic suitability of non-native drought resistant trees in th...
Gomes, Inês; Chozas, Sergio; Barradas, Mari Cruz Díaz; Alves, Fernando Louro; Ascensão, FernandoClimate change is driving a poleward shift in the optimal distributions of terrestrial organisms, including trees. Consequently, trees are expected to decrease in climatically unfavourable areas as their optimal climatic conditions shift poleward. This is the case of Mediterranean High Nature Value agroforestry systems in Iberian Peninsula, dominated by holm oaks (Quercus rotundifolia) and cork oaks (Quercus su...
Native and alien grassland diversity respond differently to environmental and a...
Bergamin, Rodrigo; Ascensão, Fernando; Capinha, Cesar; Bastazini, Vinicius; et al.Aims To identify environmental and anthropogenic drivers of alpha- and beta-diversity for native and alien plant species. Location Río de la Plata grasslands, South America (Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; 27.3–39.1°S, 50.1–66.5°W). Methods We assembled a data set of 597 vegetation plots distributed across the Río de la Plata grasslands. To assess the drivers of native and alien alpha-diversity (species richness...
Proceratium melinum (Roger, 1860): the first record of Proceratiinae ants from ...
Pinto, Tomás; Ascensão, Fernando; Boieiro, MárioABSTRACT: The ant Proceratium melinum (Roger, 1860) is reported for the first time from Portugal. This is also the first record of Proceratiinae in this country, from which a total of 133 ant species are now known. The species was collected in a cork oak stand (montado) using pitfall traps.
Prioritizing road mitigation using ecologically based land‐use planning
Ribeiro, Yuri Geraldo Gomes; Ascensão, Fernando; Yogui, Débora Regina; de Barros Ferraz, Katia Maria Paschoaletto Micchi; Desbiez, Arnaud Léonard JeanWildlife–vehicle collisions (WVCs) are a critical threat to biodiversity and human safety. To implement WVC mitigation measures where most needed, we need to link models predicting the probability of the presence of species, at large spatial scales, with the likelihood of occurring collisions along roads. Here, we propose a framework for the prioritization of road sections for implementing mitigation measures u...
The road to success and the fences to be crossed: considering multiple infrastr...
Botting, Isla; Ascensão, Fernando; Navarro, Laetitia M.; Paniw, Maria; Tablado, Zulima; Román, Jacinto; Revilla, Eloy; D'Amico, MarcelloLinear infrastructure represent a barrier to movement for many species, reducing the connectivity of the landscapes in which they reside. Of all linear infrastructure, roads and fences are two of the most ubiquitous, and are understood to reduce landscape connectivity for wildlife. However, what is often neglected consideration is a holistic approach of modelling the effects of multiple types of linear infrastr...
Rescuing Botany: using citizen-science and mobile apps in the classroom and beyond
Chozas, Sergio; Nunes, Alice; Serrano, Helena Cristina; Ascensão, Fernando; Tapia, Susana; Máguas, C.; Branquinho, CristinaBiodiversity is declining due to the impact of human activities. However, public awareness of the biodiversity crisis is low, particularly for plants, creating a barrier to engage with conservation programs. In this perspective, we show how citizen science and mobile apps can be used as educational tools to raise awareness about plant biodiversity among students and the general public. We examine the outcomes o...
Mapping potential conflicts between photovoltaic installations and biodiversity...
Ascensão, Fernando; Chozas, Sergio; Serrano, Helena Cristina; Branquinho, CristinaEuropean countries are expanding utility-scale solar farms to reduce carbon emissions and increase energy independence. However, the expansion of these facilities raises concerns about competition for land for other uses, including biodiversity conservation. Thus, quantitative assessment of the friction between renewable energy development and conservation potential is an important step towards the sustainable ...